SHOCK ARREST, HOTEL TRAIL OF BLOOD, ROB REINER, WIFE MICHELLE STABBED IN BED
Crime Stories with Nancy Grace
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Michele and Rob Reiner leave Conan’s party without their son after his off-putting behavior, like wearing a hoodie to a formal event and interrupting Bill Hader’s private conversation, leads to an embarrassing public row.
Reiner, however, doesn’t make his own way to Brentwood. Instead, he pops up in Santa Monica at 4 a.m. Sunday morning, checking into The Pierside hotel. Desk staff don’t notice anything off about Reiner’s appearance, but the next morning, housekeepers find sheets covering the windows, and blood all over Reiner’s bedding and shower.
The Reiners’ troubles with their middle child have been bubbling to a head for months. Every photo of the family from the September premiere of Rob’s latest film, "Spinal Tap: The End Continues," picture the 32-year-old sporting a deep scowl.
By November, Nick Reiner moves back into his parents’ guest house, which he’s trashed on multiple occasions, leading up to a blowout fight the day after Thanksgiving that left Michele “at her wits’ end.”
Ahead of Reiner’s first appearance, renowned defense attorney Alan Jackson enters the LA County courthouse, telling reporters he’s representing Nick Reiner.
Jackson says his client is still undergoing a medical evaluation at the infamous Twin Towers Correctional Facility, where Reiner is rumored to be held on suicide watch.
Joining Nancy Grace:
- Philip Dubé - Court-Appointed Counsel, Los Angeles County Public Defenders: Criminal & Constitutional Law; Forensics & Mental Health Advocacy; X: PhilipCDube, IG: PhilipDube, YouTube: PhilipDube3922
- Dr. Bethany Marshall - Psychoanalyst, Author: "Deal Breaker," and featured in hit show "Paris in Love" on Peacock; Instagram & TikTok: drbethanymarshall, X: @DrBethanyLivee
- Scott Eicher - A founding member of the FBI’s Cellular Analysis Survey Team (C.A.S.T); Historical Cellular Analysis Expert; Former FBI agent of 22 years; Former Police Officer and Homicide Detective with Norfolk Virginia Police Dept. having served 12 years; Currently with Precision Cellular Analysis handling Criminal, Defense and Civil Cases
- Rob Shuter - Host: Naughty But Nice Podcast, Author of Newly-released Novel “It Started With A Whisper;" Former Publicist of Sean Combs; IG: @naughtygossip
- Dr. Kendall Crowns - Chief Medical Examiner Tarrant County (Ft Worth), Host of Podcast, "Mayhem in the Morgue," and Lecturer: Burnett School of Medicine at TCU (Texas Christian University)
- Kayla Brantley - Reporter-At-Large for DailyMail.com and Host of DailyMail’s Podcast: 'The Trial of Diddy;' X: @_KaylaBrantley, Instagram: @KaylaBrantley
- Sydney Sumner - Investigative Reporter, ‘Crime Stories’
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:04.7 | Crime Stories with Nancy Grace. |
| 0:08.9 | A shock arrest after a local hotel finds a trail of blood, leading all the way to the shower after the brutal murder of Hollywood legend Rob Reiner and his wife, Michelle, |
| 0:25.2 | found stabbed in their beds. Multiple stab wounds, slices, including slices to the arterial veins |
| 0:34.7 | across the neck. This, as in the last hours, a high-profile lawyer strides in, insisting his client is innocent. |
| 0:47.4 | I'm Nancy Grace. This is crime stories. I want to thank you for being with us. |
| 0:51.1 | Rob Reiner and his wife were murdered. |
| 0:55.0 | Their daughter came across the street. |
| 0:57.0 | She lives right across the road. |
| 0:58.0 | And then she finds their bodies. |
| 1:00.0 | They had multiple stab wounds. |
| 1:03.0 | I got totally spun out on uppers. |
| 1:07.0 | I think it was Coke and something else. |
| 1:09.0 | And I was up for days on end and I started punching out different things in my guest house. |
| 1:15.6 | Like a frame? Like what? Like a stuff? |
| 1:18.6 | No, I think I started with the TV and then I went over to the lamp and then progressive, I just everything in the guest house got wrecked. Our office will be filing charges |
| 1:29.6 | against Nick Reiner, who is accused of killing his parents, actor-director Rob Reiner, and photographer, |
| 1:36.8 | producer Michelle Singer-Riner. These charges will be two counts of first-degree murder |
| 1:43.7 | with a special circumstance of multiple murders. |
| 1:47.8 | He also fesses a special allegation that he personally used a dangerous and deadly weapon, that being a knife. |
| 1:55.3 | You are hearing the local district attorney, and earlier you were hearing Rob Reiner, Michelle Reiner's son, |
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